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A new type of transistor shaped like a Christmas tree has arrived just in time for the holidays, but the prototype won't be nestled under the tree along with the other gifts. 
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Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay, and Mickey McManus are the authors of "Trillions", a new book about the future of the global economy. "Trillions" argues that we can't just design devices that help us to live better using data; rather, we have to design an entire living environment where those devices communicate with each other and with us. Only by building this interoperable network of humans and computers will we finally be able to exploit the massive potential of Big Data, and of ourselves.
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When conflict breaks out in social groups, individuals make strategic decisions about how to behave based on their understanding of alliances and feuds in the group. But it's been challenging to quantify the underlying trends that dictate how individuals make predictions, given they may only have seen a small number of fights or have limited memory. In a new study, scientists at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison develop a computational approach to determine whether individuals behave predictably.
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Traditional computing, with its ever more microscopic circuitry etched in silicon, will soon reach a final barrier: Moore's law, which dictates that the amount of computing power you can squeeze into the same space will double every 18 months, is on course to run smack into a silicon wall due to overheating, caused by electrical charges running through ever more tightly packed circuits.
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A group of scientists have laid out an ambitious plan to tackle one of the grand challenges facing mankind in the early 21st century--develop a supercomputer that can simulate the brain. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Using a powerful DNA sequencing methodology, researchers have now investigated the three-dimensional structure of DNA folds in the nucleus of a chromosome.
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Computer scientists from Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and seven other institutions are teaming up to address one of the greatest ironies of the information age: While computers and robots have automated the manufacture of...
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April 15, 2014 4:26 PM
computer programmers are the ones that program computers to do certain things. What if they programmed them to help out the computer programmers? That's what computer scientists from Rich University, from Pennsylvania and seven other institutions are teaming up to do, with a grant for th National Science Foundation of $10 million. If they succeed, this can help thousands of computer programmers across the country.
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Queen's University professor Selim Akl has provided additional proof to the theory that nature computes.
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3-D printing makes prototyping ideas much easier, meaning more inventors creating more new technologies. It also means a revolution in the way consumer goods are created and shipped. Engineers are also working to change our habit of single-material manufacturing, where each part much be produced separately and then fitted together at a later stage. Professor of computing at Cornell University, Hod Lipson says: "We are making materials within materials, and embedding and weaving multiple materials into complex patterns."
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By directing bubbles through etched pathways, bubbles can act as bits and be used to solve computations.
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30 gear wheels of anachronism, or what a 2,000-year-old shipwreck reveals about the evolution of technology.
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He helped win World War II by cracking the German ENIGMA code but was persecuted by Great Britain for being gay. Today, his name is synonymous with the test he invented in 1950 for determining a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. June 23, 2012 will be the hundredth anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, and a centenary celebration has been planned with events around the globe. It is perhaps most fitting that the Royal Mail will be issuing a commemorative stamp, a posthumous honor for one of England's heroes who was so mistreated during his life.
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IBM is developing a cognitive computing program under a DARPA program and just hit a major high.
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Powerful new computer programs are doing tasks once reserved for composers, writers and policy-makers. Via Mário Florido
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"The rapidly growing field of synthetic biology is founded on the premise that, if enough of the genetic machinery of cells is understood, then scientists and engineers may begin constructing biological machines and computers for our own purposes. From a toggle switch constructed in genes in E. coli, which represented a primitive form of memory, to more recent examples of blinking bacteria, synthetic biology as a productive area is maturing rapidly. Via Gerd Moe-Behrens
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“Domino theory is a framework that helps people understand that no matter how or small their hopes and dreams, they can accomplish them by seeing the world as a set of dominos. All it takes is one small strategic action to set big things in motion and align with the actions of others.”
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Computer scientists at Kobe University in Japan built a crab computer—or a basic functioning set of simple processes called logic gates—with the help of groups of crustaceans.
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Computer scientist Hava Siegelmann of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in neural networks, has taken Turing's work to its next logical step by translating her 1993 discovery of "Super-Turing" computation into an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves, using input from the environment in a way much more like our brains do than classic Turing-type computers. She and her post-doctoral research colleague Jeremie Cabessa report on the advance in the current issue of Neural Computation.
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Smarter computing systems can help give our lives a big boost - in education, healthcare, transportation, security and even the environment. But these computing systems need to be adjusted constantly, to help meet the changes that emerge every year.
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The ability to manufacture photonic interconnect components -- modulators, detectors, waveguides, and filters -- on silicon substrates has finally been realized, and these optical interconnect structures show great potential for intrachip and interchip applications. HP Labs is studying how this shift to light-based interconnects may revolutionize the way computers are built.
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Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of quantum mechanics.
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Charity Engine compute cycles come from volunteers who download the appropriate software on their PC that makes the computer available to the grid. But the company does not entirely rely upon the kindness of strangers. The remaining half of the money collected from clients is distributed as prizes to lucky PC donors, chosen randomly.
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When American physicist Richard Feynman in 1982 proposed creating a quantum computer that could solve complex problems, the idea was merely a theory scientists believed was far off in the future.
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